Qualitative Number Ideas, for a qualitative science, instead of a merely quantitative … Rudolf Steiner spoke of the significance of such numbers as 12, 7, and three … Below I’ve collected many such arrangements … a kind of musical undercurrent … resounding and rhythmic … twelves God the Mother God the Father multifarious unitary luminous …
Author Archives: Joel Wendt
It isn’t easy loving Rudolf Steiner
It isn’t easy loving Rudolf Steiner During most of my first seven years in this body, I was studying my “self” using Franz Bardon’s three remarkable texts on the Hermetic Science (magic) of the ancient Egyptians (all of my Bardon books have magical adventure stories, as to how they came into my possession). These works …
The Americas – Rudolf Steiner’s Blind Spot
The Americas – Rudolf Steiner’s Blind Spot I once heard some of what I call RS’s apocrypha, a story someone told me – He was asked why he didn’t come to America to lecture, and allegedly replied: “I’d have to go silent for five years”. If we read his Geographic Medicine, he points out that …
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Musings on Plato’s World of Forms
Musings on Plato’s World of Forms After many years of self observation of my own thinking activity (using the methods of natural science – as advised by RS in the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity), I found myself having access to “pure ideas”. Thinking in this Way involves an inward focus, so this “purity” is threefold: …
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
I Shot an Arrow into the Air, >>>>>>>>>>>?????????????????? Dear Members of the Vorstand, the Councils in America, and other friends and students of Rudolf Steiner, I am 81. I’ve nearly died more than once. I basically write each day as if this was the last communication to whomever … unfortunately – for all of us …
A Hymn to the Holy Mother-Earth Mother
A Hymn to the Holy Mother-Earth Mother I recommend that none of the following be believed at all. An interesting Tale, all the more fun if it turns out to be true … The Future … can go one of two ways, … One where we accept the general thesis of scientific materialism that the …
Out of the Closet …
Out of the Closet … The raw ironies of karma are jokes we play on our many selves. For example: Around 2004 just after retiring on social security at age 63, I, Joel, started a fast to loose weight. The fast lasted 45 days (lately I’ve seen that event as a not uncommon echo of …
The Mystery of America – the Spirit of Place, and Time.
The Mystery of America – the Spirit of Place, and Time. by Joel A. Wendt: White-privileged, Christian, son of Montana, American citizen, shaman, and professional heretic. [This work was inspired by the efforts of Stuart Weeks, and his crew of artists and other malcontents. America is in trouble, but Stuart’s “Center for American Studies in …
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Short Circuit by Stephen Clarke
Short Circuit by Stephen Clarke Introduction This essay, which treats the themes of evil, grace, and human magic as they find themselves on the loose in Apocalyptic America, is intended for two different audiences, but seeks a response within the heart of each and every reader. One group may find within a deepening of …
Riddle Me This
Riddle Me This For decades I’ve had the view that there were three “occultisms”, Eugenic, Hygienic, and Mechanical. Now I am not saying this is so, I am just stating my understanding – via Steiner obviously, and would be glad to be informed of mistakes. The material I remember is from “The Challenges of the …
Fake Ancient Alien Theorist Foolishly Visits the Collective Imagination 